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PENN JONES T H E
CONTINUING
INQUIRY
OCTOBER 22, 1979
CAN A PHOTOGRAPH LIE? By Jack White
Having worked in graphics for 30 years, I can say with some authority that the answer is an
emphatic "yesI" r have seen transparencies and prints retouched or altered by experts so
that the changes are not detectable even
under high powered magnification. Skilled
retouchers of transparencies can use
bleaches, dyes, airbrush, matte insertion,
darkroom manipulations, filters, micro­scopic
retouching, art techniques, and
skillful recopying and reprinting procedures
to produce composites much different than
the original.
The House Assassinations Committee recently
published this drawing, which they said
was an accurate representation of JFK
autopsy photo 15. Based on his study
of the original of this photo, expert
photo technician Robert Groden declared
this and several other photos to be fykes.
Groden says that a sophisticated graphic
process called soft-edge matte insertion
was used to superimpose upon the photo of
Kennedy's head a photo of hair, scalp and
bullet hole from some other source. He
contends this was done to cover up the
evidence of a large exit wound in the rear
of the head, thereby bolstering the much
disputed "single-bullet theory". Naturally
an exit in the rear would confirm a shot
from the "grassy knoll". Since Oswald is
"proved" to be in the TSBD, he could not
be the killer if the head shot is from the
front instead of the rear. All investi­gative
agencies of the government would
look very silly if a photo exists which depicts a rear exit wound. On the other hand, suppose
that nhoto could be altered to show an entrance wound; this would confirm a rear assassin and
deny a frontal shooter.
Based on my study of the facts, my knowledge of photography, my confidence in Robert Groden's
Tjhoto-analytical ability, and my suspicions of the HSCA and certain governmental agencies, I
t d d to accept Groden'E analysis that this photo and others are fakes. Knowing that photos

PENN JONES T H E
CONTINUING
INQUIRY
OCTOBER 22, 1979
CAN A PHOTOGRAPH LIE? By Jack White
Having worked in graphics for 30 years, I can say with some authority that the answer is an
emphatic "yesI" r have seen transparencies and prints retouched or altered by experts so
that the changes are not detectable even
under high powered magnification. Skilled
retouchers of transparencies can use
bleaches, dyes, airbrush, matte insertion,
darkroom manipulations, filters, micro­scopic
retouching, art techniques, and
skillful recopying and reprinting procedures
to produce composites much different than
the original.
The House Assassinations Committee recently
published this drawing, which they said
was an accurate representation of JFK
autopsy photo 15. Based on his study
of the original of this photo, expert
photo technician Robert Groden declared
this and several other photos to be fykes.
Groden says that a sophisticated graphic
process called soft-edge matte insertion
was used to superimpose upon the photo of
Kennedy's head a photo of hair, scalp and
bullet hole from some other source. He
contends this was done to cover up the
evidence of a large exit wound in the rear
of the head, thereby bolstering the much
disputed "single-bullet theory". Naturally
an exit in the rear would confirm a shot
from the "grassy knoll". Since Oswald is
"proved" to be in the TSBD, he could not
be the killer if the head shot is from the
front instead of the rear. All investi­gative
agencies of the government would
look very silly if a photo exists which depicts a rear exit wound. On the other hand, suppose
that nhoto could be altered to show an entrance wound; this would confirm a rear assassin and
deny a frontal shooter.
Based on my study of the facts, my knowledge of photography, my confidence in Robert Groden's
Tjhoto-analytical ability, and my suspicions of the HSCA and certain governmental agencies, I
t d d to accept Groden'E analysis that this photo and others are fakes. Knowing that photos